Window-screen construction.



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JOSEPH G. HUDSPITH, OF HUNTINGTON PARK, CALIFORNIA.

WIND OW-SGREE N CONSTRUCTION.

No. 921,405. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 11, 1909.

Application filed November 16, 1908. Serial No. 462,868.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrri Gr. Hunsrrrn, citizen of the United States, residing at Huntington Park, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in VVindow- Screen Constructions, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has to do with window casings and sliding sashes and screen attachments therefor; and it contemplates the provision of a simple, inexpensive and practical construction for screening the opening left by the raising of the lower sash or the lowering of the upper sash, and for housing the screens and protecting the same against the weather when the sashes are closed as in the Winter sea son.

The nature of the invention, and its novelty, utility and practical advantages will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a broken, vertical section of the construction constituting the best practical embodiment of my invention of which I am cognizant. Fig. 2 is a detail vertical section showing the postion which the shield on the lower sash assumes when said sash is raised. Figs. 3 and t are detail views showing the keeper-plate and the spring catch which I prefer to employ in the detachable connection of the lower screen to the lower sash.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in all of the views of the drawings, referring to which:

A is a window casing in the head amb a of which is an opening Z) for the Vertical movement of the upper screen B.

C is a strip suitably fixed in position with respect to the casing A and forming part of a housing D, disposed above the casing A, and designed to receive and protect the screen B when the upper sash E is raised to its closed position, and F is the angle plate, preferably employed in the connection of the screen B to the sash E so as to assure the same moving upwardly and downwardly as a unit. It will be readily noted in this connection that when the upper sash E is lowered the screen B will be drawn downwardly to bar the opening left by the lowering of the sash, and that when the said sash is raised to its closed position, the screen 13 will be disposed in the housing D and hence will not obscure tie light or lights of the sash and will not be liable to be deteriorated by inclement weather.

In addition to the features hereinbefore mentioned, the window casing A is provided with parting strips G, one of which is shown in Figs. 1 and 2; the said parting strips be ing peculiar in that their lower ends are beveled, as indicated by g. The casing is further provided with a sill H in which is a slot 1, forming the mouth of a housing J, disposed below the casing and adapted to receive and protect the lower screen K when the lower sash L is in its lowermost and closed position.

As clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the lower bar of the sash L is recessed, as indicated by Z, and is provided above said recess with a bearing m, adapted to receive a ournal-portion n of the shield M the length of which corresponds to the width of the sash. Behind the said shield M is arranged one or more springs N which are preferably carried by the sash and tend to press the shield outwardly.

The sash L is designed to be connected with the screen K in the manner hereinafter set forth, so that when the sash is raised the screen will follow and bar the opening left by the sash, and when the sash is closed, the screen will be lowered into its housing where it will be protected against the weather with the result that its period of usefulness will be prolonged.

When the sash L is lowered to its closed position, the spring or springs N will ope"- ate to press the shield M outwardly and yieldingly hold the same against the beveled ends 9 of the parting strips, and con sequently the said shield will serve to shed rain and snow and prevent the same reaching and deteriorating the screen K. It will also be observed that when the sash L and screen K are raised, the beveled ends of the wardly and yieldingly retain the same in the position shown in Fig. l.

I prefer to detachably connect the screen K to the sash L so that when desired an opening. may be left through the lower portion of the casing A, and for said purpose I recess the lower bar of the sash. indicated by s, and fix therein a keeper-plate T having a tongue t, and I also recess the inner side of the top bar of the screen K and equip the screen with a spring catch U having an aperture 24 to receive the tongue 25 of the keeper-plate T. li hen the catch U and the plate T are connected, as shown in 1, the sash L and the screen l: will move upwardly and downwardly as one piece. When, however, the sash L is raised to a slight extent and the upper end of the catch U is pressed outwardly by a screw driver or other available device to disengage it from the tongue Z, it will be observed that the screen K may be allowed to drop back into its housing, and the sash :ZJ may be raised and lowered without the screen. When the sash L is raised a slight distance above the sill H, the shield M will obviously rest in such position that ample space is afforded for the removal of the catch U from the tongue 6 of plate T; the said shield being adapted to move gradually from the position shown in l to that shown in 2. It will also be noted that when the sash L is lowered independent of the screen K, the tongue 25 will engage the upper inclined end of. the catch U and by pressing the upper portion of the catch outwardly will ride into the aperture a thereof, there by connecting the sash and screen.

I contemplate in practice employing the usual counterbalance weights in comloination with the sashes and their respective screens; the weights being, of course, commensurate with the weight of the sashes plus the weights of the screens thereof.

As before stated, the construction herein shown and described constitutes the best practical embodiment of my invention known to me, but it is obvious that in the future practice of the invention such changes in the form, construction and relative arrangement of parts may be made as fairly housing, a shield carried by and movable with the lower sash and also movable outwardly and inwardly independently of said sash, means for moving said shield outwardly into position over the lower housing when the lower sash is in its closed position, and means for moving the shield inwardly on upper movement of the sash.

The combination in a window screen construction, of a window casing having a downwardly extending housing, a slidable sash in said frame, a slidable screen adapted to occupy the housing, a swinging shield carried by and movable with the sash, means for forcing said shield outwardly when the sash is closed, and means for forcing the shield inwardly on upward movement of the sash.

3. The combination in a window screen construction, of a window casing having a parting strip the lower end of which is beveled and also having a downwardly ending housing, a slidable sash in said me, a slidable screen adapted to occupy housing, a swinging shield pivoted to he sash and adapted to bear against the beveled end of the parting strip when the sash is closed, and a spring for pressing and yieldingly holding the shield against the beveled end of the parting strip.

4. The combination in a window screen construction, of a window casing having a parting strip the lower end of which is beveled and also having a downwardly eX- tending housing, a slidable sash arranged in the window frame and having a recess in its lower bar and a hearing at the upper end of the recess, a slidable screen adapted to occupy the housing, a swinging shield having a journal arranged in said bearing, and a spring for pressing and yieldingly holding the shield against the beveled end of the parting strip.

The combination in a window screen construction, of a window casing having a parting strip the lower end of which is beveled and also having a downwardly extend ing housing, a .slidable sash arranged. in

the window frame and having a recessed lower bar and also having a bearing, a slidable screen adapted to occupy the housing, a swinging shield having a journal arranged in said bearing, a spring for pressing and yieldingly holding the screen against the beveled parting strip, a keeper-plate fixed in the recessed lower bar of the sash and having a tongue, and a spring catch con- 10 nected with the screen and adapted to be engaged with and disengaged from said tongue.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOSEPH G. HUDSPITH.

Witnesses:

A. H. POTTER, E. M. HOUSE. 

